A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. -Luke 6:45 The first law of effective outreach deals with the church’s heart for [...]
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We try and try to get people to come to church. We think “If they could jsut see how nice anf friendly we are..” Well Christ called us to GO and make deciples of all nations and one church in Wisconsin is taking GO as a direct order and going to a place where you [...]
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I’m about two chapters into the book Leading Congregational Change: A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey and its becoming very hard to put down. It talks about how the driving force of Congregational Change is Spiritual and Relational Vitality
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Is one of the things holding you back from sharing your faith is you think you will be faced with a question you can’t answer? This new book is for you. The best thing of all (if you own a kindle), the book is FREE for the next 10 days. Here is the book description [...]
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While surfing around Amazon.com from some outreach ideas, I came across a book bundle from outreach magazine. These books are titled 25 Proven Outreach Ideas, and Keep the Change outreach ideas on a shoestring. Here is the description from amazon.com Includes the one copy of the booklet 25 Proven Outreach Ideas for Your Church and [...]
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According to a new report, The Cystal Cathedral home of the “Hour of Power” and previously headed by Robert Schuller (now by his daughter Sheila Schuller Coleman) filed for bankrupcy today. They are in debt to the tune of $43 million. Some might wonder why? I thought it was interesting that the story states, “The [...]
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I had seen this movie advertised in different Christian Magazines as well as stores like Family Christian. When I saw it arrive in my local red box I decided to rent it. To Save a Life is designed to get people talking. It wants people talking about teen suicide, divorce, parenting, cutting, drugs, pregnancy, Internet, Christian [...]
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Outreach has come out with their Small Church America issue with tips and insights from small churches and what they are doing to build their members, and lead other to Christ. You can buy the issue here Here is a sample as the fourth of July was a few weeks ago. Fourth of July Parade [...]
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You rarely hear anything good about Christianity, let alone someone saying it can save someone’s life. Well Bret Hume did just this on a recent Fox news message. Now I’m sure this will set off a bunch of scoffing by the media, but it was inspiring to see someone in such a public place stand [...]
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I just read a great article about using Twitter as an outreach tool. I mentioned in a previous episode about how I use twitter to share prayter concerns, and announce events (remember many people receive “tweets” on their phone). This article talks about how using the advanced search features you can filter by zip code [...]
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